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Kim Whitaker
Founder, CAVU
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About me

I am an entrepreneurial leader, speaker/lecturer and previous startup founder with a passion for social change, enabling technology and obsessive customer service.

I am honored to have won a number of business awards and entrepreneurial awards for my hospitality business Once Travel, empowered womxn to learn and grow through Khwela Womxn and launched Ubuntu Beds - a tech platform that has helped place thousands of healthcare workers in empty hotels in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Since 2022, I’ve helped scale the Airbnb Entrepreneurship Academy in Africa.

I am passionate about tackling societies’ most complex problems, finding lean and creative ways to solve these using technology and activate momentum to build positive movements. I’m currently consulting and building a new business, focused around post-exit entrepreneurs and multiplying their impact on society.

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  • Interesting premise. It reminds me a bit of the end of horse-drawn carts, when London commuters could never imagine that automobiles could replace the carts. I suppose there is a giant market share that has no access to tourism, or experiential travel -... show more

  • I really enjoyed Volkan Üce’s documentary, ALL-IN. "ALL-IN was featured at the recent Encounters Documentary Festival, is a meditation on tourism and hospitality from the perspective of the workers who form the backbone of the industry."

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